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It... is? What's... repulsive about the word "sleeve" exactly?
At some point you’ve got to have a goddamn backbone.
The Democrats have had so many opportunities to do so and haven't managed even the faintest hint of one in my memory. God I hope they're serious about it this time, but I'd be amazed if it actually happened now.
Akshully, though...
The thing with base 60 is that 60 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Also, notably, 12. And 10.
It's pretty trivial to divide anything in base 10 by either 2 or by 5, right? That's specifically because 10 is divisible by 2 and 5.
But try to divide some nice round number like 10 by 3 and you can't even represent that in decimal without stating that "oh, and by the way, these threes go on forever."
Ever wonder why so many things come in dozens? It's largely because 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4.
10, though? When was the last time you needed to divide things evenly by five? It's so much more common to want to divide by 3.
So in short, base 60 honestly has some significant benefits over base 10.
But, really, haha "sex", am I right?
Original prose is a marvelous spectacle.
But AI? I dunno. I remain skeptical.
(The above is not written by an AI. I promise. ;) )
What would the "bot that finds bots larping as people" do exactly? Ban them? Block or mute them? File reports? DM an admin about them?
If it's just for pointing out suspected LLM-generated material, I think humans would be better at that than bots would be, and could block, mute, or file reports as necessary.
Also, are you saying you intend to make a bot that posts LLM-generated drivel or a bot that detects LLM-generated drivel?
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What's a "Lemmy AI Platform?"
I guess it's better than drinking Borax or injecting bleach...
I really hope the clients have recourse in the form of suing their dumbass former lawyers for extra costs incurred due to legal dumbassery.
It's like appeasement again only worse, because at least the motivation for appeasement was ostensibly to avoid conflict.
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You're not wrong, but...
The arabic numererals we use in our primary base-10 system are very arbitrary. There's no connection between the around-a-tree-around-a-tree numeral "3" we use to represent the number after the candy-cane-with-a-shoe numeral "2" and the concept of the number 3.
But it doesn't have to be that way. What if the numerals in our base-60 system themselves followed a pattern.
One of the simpler and more straightforward ways of doing that (that might not work well in practice, at least not for hand-written numerals) would be just to make each numeral in our base-60 system be a vertical line of 6 marks, each either a dot or a dash. We could use that then to encode a single digit in our base-60 system using base-2 digits.
For instance:
Would be
(1*2^1)*60^1+(1*2^3+1*2^1)*60^0 = 2*60^1+10*60^0 = 120+10 = 130.Viola! Base-60 with (handwave, mutter, qualify) only 2 numerals!
There are downsides to this as well. For instance, you'd have to not consider certain patterns valid. Six base-2 digits can encode numbers up to 63, so you'd just have to throw away the last four and say you're not allowed to put a 60, 61, 62, or 63 in a single digit. (Also, we'd need language to differentiate between the base-2 digits and the base-60 digits in the same exact number system.)
Not the only way it could be approached, but it's an option.